12 Jonker Street Night Market Foods that You Should Try

When people mentioned about Malacca, they will certainly first think of their unique foods, buildings and heritage culture. The best and fast alternatives to understand Malacca is by visiting the spot that locals usually visits. One of the usual spot that local will visits definitely will be night market. So today, SGMYTRIPS will be listing out the Top 12 foods that you should try at one of the prominent Malacaa night market – Jonker Street Night Market.

Grilled Seafood
Nyonya Popiah
Fried Quail Eggs
Potato sticks
Nitrogen Korean Snack Food
Durian Puff
Fried Ice Cream
Coconut Ice Cream
Coconut Drink
Big Watermelon Juice
Go Tea
Light Bulb Drink

Jonker Street Night Market

Location : Jalan Hang Jebat, 75200 Melaka

Operation Hour: 6pm – 12 am (Friday- Sunday)

1. Grilled Seafood

If you are a seafood lover, you should definitely give a try to the famous grilled stall at Jonker Street Night Market. Whenever you passed by the stall, you would not deny that the grilled aroma elicits your saliva from drooling. There are variety types of seafood are being serve here such as oyster, baby crabs, cuttlefish and giant scallop. All the seafood serves in the humble stall are freshly grilled upon request.

We highly recommend you to order their Signature Cuttlefish if you are spicy food lover. The cuttlefish is barbecued grilled with their in-house sauce. Although it is a simple dish, but you would absolutely be amazed by their taste.

The texture of cuttlefish is crunchy and it taste slight salty and spicy at the same time. If you can’t stand spicy food, you can give a try to their Grilled Scallop with Vermicelli. The fresh scallop is barbecue grilled and topped with vermicelli noodles,an egg and some spring onions. The taste of Signature Grilled Scallop is impressive. The fresh scallop is grilled on point and the combination of vermicelli noodles with scallop is excellence. You will definitely never deny that this is one of the signature Malaysia street dish that you will reminisce for a long time.

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Price: RM 8- RM 30

2. Nyonya Popiah

Whenever you are at Jonker Street Night Market, you should never miss out the Nyonya Popiah or also can be known as freshly handmade spring rolls. Nyonya Popiah is a common seen cuisine in Malaysia especially Malacca who are rich with the culture of Baba and Nyonya . Although Baba and Nyonya culture may not be notable among youngsters nowadays, but you still can be able to find the authentic taste of Nyonya Popiah at Jonker Street Night Market.

The Nyonya Popiah at Jonker Street is worth recommended as their homemade Popiah skin is wrapped with generous portion of ingredients such as prawns, scramble eggs, bean sprouts and crunchy pork lard and it is serve with their signature sweet and spicy chili sauce. What held the Nyonya Popiah apart from others is the pork lard. The homemade pork lard is definitely the essence of the Popiah.

Also Read : Malacca Top 10 Best Nyonya Food

The slight grilled and fragrant taste of pork lard increase the Popiah to a different level. You will definitely be amazed with the taste and texture of the Popiah after tasting it. The taste of Popiah is sweet and flavorful and the bean sprouts added makes the Popiah texture to be more crunchy.

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Price: RM3

3. Fried Quail Eggs

Ever wonder what is the taste of fried Quail Eggs? You should certainly need to give a try to it when you are at Jonker Street Night Market. The Fried Quail Eggs is quite alike with the Japanese dish – Takoyaki, but with some twist of Malaysia taste and element.

The Quail Egg is freshly fried on a mould with circle shaped upon order. While frying the quail egg, ingredients like Curry Chicken with Nyonya taste, Crab sticks, Chicken Sausage, corn and bean curd were added based on the customers preferences.

Before the fried quail egg is served, they are topped with their homemade black pepper, barbecue, cheese and mayonnaise sauce.The taste of the fried Quail Eggs is tasty and unique where you certainly cannot be able to find at another place. You will definitely crave for second stick after trying it.

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Price: RM4 per stick / RM10 for 3 sticks

4. Potato sticks

Tired trying of mainstream potato chips? Then you should definitely give a try to the Potato Sticks at Jonker Street Night Market. Potato sticks is one the prominent street food that you can found in Jonker Street Night Market.You may see a long queue whenever you passed by the humble stall. Not to mention, the long spiral Potato stick here is not only flavor pleasing , it is also aesthetically satisfying and Instagram worthy.

The potato are slice into spiral shape and coated with their homemade secret ingredients. After coating they will be deep fried at a hot temperature on a skewer and sprinkle with seasoning like salt, black pepper, mayonnaise, cheese or barbecue based on the customers preferences. The taste of the potato sticks is flavorful and crispy and the potato slices are evenly coated with their tasty secret sauce. Sounds good? It is definitely worth a drive to Jonker Street Night Market this weekend.

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Price: RM6 per stick

5.Nitrogen Korean Snack Food

Craving for some Korean snack when you are at Malaysia? No worries, do drop by the Nitrogen Korean Snack Food stall at Jonker Street Night Market. It is a snack that inspired by Korean trending snack – Dragon Breath. Nitrogen Korean Snack is a trending frozen dessert among youngsters nowadays. The dessert is served in a cup that consist of colourful corn puffs that are dipped with cold liquid nitrogen. Once the dessert is placed into the eater’s palette, the sweet corn puffs which consist of liquid nitrogen will integrates with the warmth mouth to liberate wispy and cold vapors out of the eater’s nose and mouth.

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Price: RM 10 per cup

6. Durian Puff

If you are a durian lover, you should absolutely never skipped the Durian Puff that sold at Jonker Street Night Market. Durian Puff is one of the prominent desserts in Malacca. Durian Puff is not only favour by tourists around the world but also favoured by the locals itself. No doubt that, the durian puff that serves at Jonker Street Night Market are one of the best in town.

Also Read : Where To Eat Durian In Melaka

The Durian Puff at Jonker Street Night Market is strongly recommended as the puffs are baked freshly by the professional patisserie daily to ensure their puffs are in a premium quality of freshness. Not only that, the durian paste are also freshly prepared daily from good quality of durian without adding any preservation.

In terms of portion of durian paste, the homemade puffs is generous filled with rich amount of fillings. Before we forget, you are highly recommended to finished the durian puffs within 6 hours from the time of purchase.

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Price: RM 10 for 4

7. Fried Ice Cream

With the hot weather at Malacca, what is better than having a cool and tasty scoop of ice cream. You should definitely give a try to the famous Fried Ice Cream at Jonker Street Night Market. Fried Ice Cream is a classic dessert that are prominent in Malaysia since 1800s. It is well known among Malaysians for a several years and previously it is mostly serve at home or during catering service.

The humble stall serves a variety flavor of ice cream ranging from cookies, vanilla, chocolate, yam, coconuts and strawberry. Each of the ice cream are frozen with their homemade bread crumbs and fried for around 8 – 10 seconds.

Although the fried ice cream seems easy to be prepared, but the taste will absolutely never make your palette disappoint. The combination of warm and crunchy crust with the creamy and cold ice cream definitely gave your taste buds double satisfaction while you having it.

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Price: RM 4 each

8.Coconut Ice Cream

Apart from Fried Ice Cream, Jonker Street Night Market also well known in serving Coconut Ice Cream. Coconut Ice Cream is a classic dessert among locals in Malacca. The ice cream is freshly made using pure coconut flesh without adding any preservation. Each of their ice cream is served on a cleaned coconut husk to enrich the taste of coconut.

The humble stall offered a variety of toppings such as Oreo chips, peanuts, red bean, chocolate chips, corn flakes, red bean and desiccated coconut. Not to mention, all of the toppings are self service. You are free to add any of the toppings as many as you like. In terms of taste, the ice cream is creamy, rich with the sweet taste of coconut and mixed well with those crunchy ingredients. You will definitely crave for second bowl of Coconut Ice Cream after finishing it.

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Additional Information:

Price: RM 10.50

9.Coconut Drink

When you are shopping around Jonker Street Night Market, you will definitely noticed different scrumptious coconut desserts and beverages are being sold around the night market. Coconut Water Ball is one the highly recommended beverages by the locals itself as it is a sweet and refreshing beverage that can soothe thirsty instantly.

Each of the coconut is carefully cut from the husk, forming a ball of soft and tender coconut flesh that filled with coconut water. The taste of the coconut water is worth mentioning, it is sweet and with some fragrant Pandan aroma. Apart from coconut water ball, you can also try out their signature coconut jelly as well. The dessert is served on a coconut husk, The coconut jelly is accompany with cool and refreshing coconut jelly, coconut flesh and the coconut juice. The taste of is so rich in the coconut taste yet it tastes not overly sweet.

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Price: RM 2

10. Big Watermelon Juice

Next on the list, we have the locals and tourists all time favourite beverages – Big Watermelon juice. It is definitely the best beverage to have when you are shopping in the hot and humid Jonker Street Night Market.

What held this Big Watermelon Juice to be recommended is that the watermelon juice is serve in the watermelon itself instead on a cup. The watermelon is grind slowly with an electric cake- beater until it becomes juice.

The watermelon juice served at Jonker Street Night Market is absolutely healthy as no sugar and ice is added during the grinding process. Saliva drooling? Do give a try to the stall with your child when you are in Jonker Street Night Market.

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Price: RM 10

11.Go Tea

Calling all bubble tea lover! If you are tired trying the mainstream bubble tea, you should certainly need to try out Go Tea in Jonker Street Night Market. Go Tea is a milk tea stall that established on 2018. They served various type of milk tea ranging from Charcoal Milk Tea, Nutella Boba Milk, The Charcoal milk tea, White Rabbit Milk Tea and Black Sugar Bubble Milk Tea, but the highly recommended will definitely be their Charcoal Milk Tea.

Their Charcoal Milk Tea is inspired by Taiwan tea based beverages and it is believe to help in getting rid of hang over, bloating, natural detoxing and digestion. It is blended with fresh milk, activated charcoal and QQ black pearls. You would absolutely never deny that the taste of the milk tea is unique where you will not find it from other cafe.

The taste of milk is creamy and it combines well with the charcoal mixture, and the texture of black pearls are bouncy and chewy.You will never be disappointed coming over here, so do give a try on their Charcoal Milk Tea the next time you visit Jonker Street Night Market.

Additional Information:

Price: RM 9.90

12.Light Bulb Drink

Last on the list we have a Instagram worthy drink that can only be find in Jonker Street Night Market – The Light Bulb Drink . The Light Bulb Drink is strongly recommended to anyone who are searching for a healthy and unusual drinks. They are prominent in serving nice and healthy fruit juice in an uncommon bottle container. Everything serves here is at an affordable and reasonable price.

Other than serving in light bulb, they also serve their drinks in syringes and blood bags as well. All their juice are freshly squeeze on the spot. You can either select mango, strawberry, blueberry, and lime juice based on your preference, but the highly recommended would definitely be their Signature Mango juice. The Mango juice serve is sweet with some fresh mango pulp.

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Price: RM 6 per cup

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